Dis-recommending Awodey’s book. I tried reading it as an introduction, and it was tremendously confusing. I’m going through Harold Simmons’ An Introduction to Category Theory now, and from a beginner’s standpoint, it’s far superior.
Edit: Coming back to this years later & with more math under my belt, I now see why Awodey’s is so well recommended. I now say you should check it out first, see if you can understand it, and if so great! If not, go to Simmons’ book.
I didn’t know of Simmons book, will take a look. To be honest, I never went very far in Awodey, but it still worked better for me than McLane (not hard, I know).
Dis-recommending Awodey’s book. I tried reading it as an introduction, and it was tremendously confusing. I’m going through Harold Simmons’ An Introduction to Category Theory now, and from a beginner’s standpoint, it’s far superior.
Edit: Coming back to this years later & with more math under my belt, I now see why Awodey’s is so well recommended. I now say you should check it out first, see if you can understand it, and if so great! If not, go to Simmons’ book.
Thanks for the feedback!
I didn’t know of Simmons book, will take a look. To be honest, I never went very far in Awodey, but it still worked better for me than McLane (not hard, I know).
Cool. Let me know if you have opinions on it.